2thFairy

doogfood wrote:I like your idea, and I totally agree on it. However, I personally think that egocentric/ethnocentric would be a better word than greed to describe it. I wonder how many people are gonna bash my comment here....

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richpowell

superspryte wrote:Uncanny, isn't it? Now you see why someone mentioned the similarity. ^_~

Yeah, really! I guess my "fogeyness" is showing a bit, this is really fun. I'm really impressed with a lot of the shirts. Good stuff. I bought one a while back and was impressed with the quality as well. I might mention another difference: my guy never gets the butterflies and flies back to Planet Apeish dejected.

richpowell

leecetheartist

You know, what I REALLY like about this shirt apart from what everyone else is saying, is the expression on the Mona Lisa. She just knows this is a bad idea and is looking on with (somewhat justified) schadenfreude.

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tgentry

katiethemac wrote:Well, let me just prepare myself to buy another shirt from TG. =] I have no idea how you do this week after week.. PLEASE keep it up otherwise I'll have to walk around naked all the time, *giggles*.

Ha, thanks but I think this is another 4th place finish for me. I haven't been in the hotness in days.

leecetheartist

superspryte wrote:I like the way the coins are spilling out, although I think it might have been better if you'd found a way to avoid the boxy effect at the bottom. Nice first entry. ^_^

Thank you. I was just admiring your very dynamic red dragon, most impressive.

Huh, when I was halfway through my entry I had a look in at the derby, not one dragon to be seen, now they're everywhere! Not that I'm complaining, the more dragons the better in my opinion. :-)

What I wanted to do originally was to have the dragon dwarfed by the size of its hoard, the focus being on the hoard, rather than the dragon and to fill almost all the available space. When Woot's waiting period is over I might play with it a little to see if having a non "boxy effect" improves it and then put it in my own shop.

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richpowell

leecetheartist

Sigh. I wish that shirt.woot would take orders from Australia - I'd love to be able to vote.

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mollib

This is really lovely!! I'm finding that I'm not a huge fan of this particular theme (although there is some great work that has been done for it), but I really like this one a lot, and would wear it, for sure

tallmidget

doogfood wrote:I like your idea, and I totally agree on it. However, I personally think that egocentric/ethnocentric would be a better word than greed to describe it. I wonder how many people are gonna bash my comment here....

wait...are u saying i or my idea is ego/ethnocentric? all my design is suggesting is that america is greedily eating up the world's resources. bottom line. that's it. i didn' t mean anything else by it. (not trying to "bash your comment")

i'm not saying america is better than anyone. i'm not saying that we attack anyone. we're just using up resources. its true. if i could use text, i would make it like a political cartoon and it would say "natural resources" on the earth for clarification.

for anyone that would like to suggest that i'm unpatriotic, i would like to add that i say the Pledge of Allegiance everyday, not because I have to, but because i choose to, and i understand what it means to live in such a great nation. if u don't like the design, u don't have to vote for it.

snarkygal

mjl9320 wrote:Most self-respecting adults don't wear tee shirts. Don't be angry, just hold out for that occasional winning shirt you do like, no matter how sparse they are. You don't want to spend $10 on a tee shirt every day anyway.

That is bullpucky that adults that wear tshirts have no self-respect. And SamoaJoe is just a Jamescho84 stalker. He only comes out to make hateful comments on his designs.

dsladek

richpowell wrote:Excellent illustration, really funny! I see this is your first foray into a contest here. Me too. Do you illustrate for a living? Let me know, I'd love to chat.
-Rich

Im a student at the cleveland institute of art. and Im majoring in animation/illustration. I just found out about this site this week through a friend. you guys can expect more designs in the future, this has been fun. thanks for your support!

Andy47240

Well, I feel aweful for mjpupillo, beacuse I know these Monkeys are mostly clip art. For my "Monkey Wrench" design I used a clip art monkey for the head and half of the body. I manipulated the arm to look human and added the wrench. I used the CorelDraw polygon tool to make the 8 pointed stars and a brush tool to make the streaks behind the design.
I have contacted the Woot staff about this. Had they asked me before they rejected it I would have told them as I have never denied legally using clip-art to aid a lot of my designs.
If this prevents anyone from voting for my artwork in the future that is your right for sure and I can live with that. I will still try to be a positive person to others in the forums.
-Andy

dsladek

surflunesta wrote:Like it a lot...to me it looks very Dr. Seuss-ian. Are you influenced by him?

Dr. Seuss is awesome in his own right, but not really my cup of tea. Im influenced by too many artist to really list and Im always finding more. Inspiration comes from many artists and many styles. thanks for your comments!

superspryte

Huh, when I was halfway through my entry I had a look in at the derby, not one dragon to be seen, now they're everywhere! Not that I'm complaining, the more dragons the better in my opinion. :-)

What I wanted to do originally was to have the dragon dwarfed by the size of its hoard, the focus being on the hoard, rather than the dragon and to fill almost all the available space. When Woot's waiting period is over I might play with it a little to see if having a non "boxy effect" improves it and then put it in my own shop.

Hee, thanks. ^_^

Go ahead and play with the design before the 60 days. Just don't post it anywhere. ^_~ Then you can have a ready design as soon as you're allowed to post it. Consider posting it on bestlosers.com too.

SydneyB

leecetheartist

Go ahead and play with the design before the 60 days. Just don't post it anywhere. ^_~ Then you can have a ready design as soon as you're allowed to post it. Consider posting it on bestlosers.com too.

Thanks, superspryte, once all this other stuff I've had on the back burner is finished, I'll tinker with it. :-) It might even be before the 60 days is up but somehow I doubt it. :-D

*leece heads off to see what bestlosers.com is about*

Cool! Nice idea, thanks.

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jzelts

mollib wrote:This is really lovely!! I'm finding that I'm not a huge fan of this particular theme (although there is some great work that has been done for it), but I really like this one a lot, and would wear it, for sure

ElRicardo

This is a resubmit. My first was rejected for being off topic. It had too many colors, the blur for a distance effect was equivalent to a gradient/halftoning and would have printed badly I'm sure, there was too much going on in the picture and it was obviously confusing. I don't know about off-topic, closer than others that have not been rejected. Gaia is the earth as a complete living organism of which we and all of the living things on it and in it, are component parts of the greater organism. Greed is a virtue of the the larger entity and cascades throughout all its living cells. Natural greed is good, necessary for survival and evolution. Under the influence of intelligence, it has served us both well and poorly, but in the end, natural greed wins. If I had it to do over again, maybe I'd try to show the squid being swallowed by a volcano.

eHalcyon

ElRicardo wrote:This is a resubmit. My first was rejected for being off topic. It had too many colors, the blur for a distance effect was equivalent to a gradient/halftoning and would have printed badly I'm sure, there was too much going on in the picture and it was obviously confusing. I don't know about off-topic, closer than others that have not been rejected. Gaia is the earth as a complete living organism of which we and all of the living things on it and in it, are component parts of the greater organism. Greed is a virtue of the the larger entity and cascades throughout all its living cells. Natural greed is good, necessary for survival and evolution. Under the influence of intelligence, it has served us both well and poorly, but in the end, natural greed wins. If I had it to do over again, maybe I'd try to show the squid being swallowed by a volcano.

Even with your explanation... I don't really get it. ^^"

Maybe I've been staring at lines of C++ code for too long tonight, but I think that your design is too far abstracted for it to work for the theme. For example:

The theme is about greed.
Greedy people like money.
Money can be used to buy food.
My favourite food is strawberries.
I'm going to submit a bowl of strawberries as my design for this derby.

Obviously yours isn't that far out, but I think yours is sort of like that. But seriously - what's with the squid? XP

Iambusyeating

redghia69 wrote:Yeah, took a few tries, but then started to work -- I'm still learning. Rodentia seemed to fit the bill on this one. It's been 4 weeks since I drew anything furry, so you can't peg me for rodents only :-). And an owl seemed right for Gandalf. Thanks for the comment!

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